Damyon gave him a Mickey Mouse thank you card that said “Thank you for your service. Our hearts are heavy for the loss of your fellow officers. You are in our prayers.”

Dickey said that after handing him the card Damyon "said thank you and he was smiling ear to ear.”

“I was stunned because one, that doesn’t happen all that often, and two, they usually don’t chase you down in a car,” Dickey said.

When he and Damyon’s mom connected on Facebook he realized they had extended the same kind gesture to several other officers in the area. But when Dickey shared their story, he found out that officers in the Chesterton area were not alone.

“This is happening all over the country,” Dickey said, telling NBC 5 that his colleagues are sharing stories of “groups of kids going up and thanking police officers,” and that someone even bought his station’s lunch Saturday.

No matter what happens, Dickey said, “We’re still going to do our job.” But a gesture of kindness “absolutely plays a role in our attitude and how we go about the day,” he said.

“We feel like nobody has our back except each other most of the time,” Dickey said. “And then when you have the public coming up and doing that, to have a little kid like that come up and give you a card means a lot.”